MONSTER

I realize this is relatively old news, but I am appalled that Senator Clinton made the following statement:

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacks Israel]. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Several weeks have passed since the above clip, but she - to my horror - has yet to move away from her stance or sound bite.

Even if one believes in the right of the United States to engage in massive retaliation for aggression against our allies, Clinton's words are unconscionably insensitive, at best, and insanely genocidal, at worst.

"Totally obliterating" Iran would mean the death of 71 million people, which eclipses Hitler's total obliteration during the holocaust by about 60 million people.

I can't think of anything that George W. Bush has ever said that sounds as hawkish, maniacal, and detrimental to our national security interests as Clinton's words on Iran.


P.S. And some of you are still defending Clinton as the choice for progressives in November?


P.P.S. Now that Senator Clinton has officially become a monster, can Samantha Power be reinstated as Obama's foreign policy adviser?

--Junichi